RE: Mulcahey... Once you get this bad, in my eyes you can hardly recover...

I really do agree. There are these bad habits that just become ingrained. Paraphrasing, but close:

Katie: "As long as there is breath in this body, I will love this life"

Stephanie: "I never imagined that here, in the autumn of my years, we would come to this point."

(Insulin, please!).

Again, I'm really surprised she has this much authority. I thought his scripts were the best... his dialogue really managed to save a lot of the stories, at least in the particular episode he was in. I would so love to see what he could do script and breakdown wise on Y&R!

If it truly is Alden doing this...I can only say that B&B was always an "eye roll" show. And that was okay. But where we are now is just beyond the pale.

I mean, even FLANNERY is knocking out these "Logan sluts" and what have you...repetitive, recycled, florid.

You all KNOW I am not a "negative" guy. I do my best, I have been told, to 'rationalize' everything. But I cannot rationalize the dialogue on B&B.

Honestly, the VERY WORST shows...the ones where I drop everything and say "My goodness, what did they just say" are written by Patrick Mulcahey and Jack Smith.

That's why I have a hard time blaming Alden...because it so specifically happens on the Mulcahey and Smith episodes.

Please, keep Alden, Smith, and Mulcahey away from Y&R. I really think it is for the best at this point.

Do you people have anyone outside daytime to suggest? And no, I don't mean primetime, I mean playwrights, novelists?

I'm going to say Jon Robin Baitz, because he's not in primetime.

I'm going to say Jon Robin Baitz, because he's not in primetime.

For a moment there I was afraid that no one here reads! And no, by reading I don't mean text messages and online news articles!

Do you people have anyone outside daytime to suggest? And no, I don't mean primetime, I mean playwrights, novelists?

Not everyone can be LeMay, and even LeMay credited Irna and Slesar for their advisement during the initial stages of his original tenure at AW.

Later, when AW hired another playwright in the 80's, it was a huge failure.

And don't get me started with the overrated Michael Malone and his OLTL.

These people would need months of intense training to write properly for daytime.

I'm going to say Jon Robin Baitz, because he's not in primetime.

He would fall apart all too quickly. He can't run a show.

Do you people have anyone outside daytime to suggest? And no, I don't mean primetime, I mean playwrights, novelists?

This is stupid, but how old is Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt? He should learn English and start writing pronto, Enigma Variations was a fabulous soap!

Jackie Collins for B&B? I'm kinda seriously joking.

Not everyone can be LeMay, and even LeMay credited Irna and Slesar for their advisement during the initial stages of his original tenure at AW.

Later, when AW hired another playwright in the 80's, it was a huge failure.

And don't get me started with the overrated Michael Malone and his OLTL.

These people would need months of intense training to write properly for daytime.

And who do we realistically have from daytime?

Lorraine Broderick?

Michele Val Jean?

Nancy Curlee?

Is there anyone else? If these people are (t)here at all...

Please, keep Alden, Smith, and Mulcahey away from Y&R. I really think it is for the best

at this point.

I bet if they were at Y&R, you'd rationalize everything they'd do too.

I bet if they were at Y&R, you'd rationalize everything they'd do too.

:lol:

Michele Val Jean?

Nancy Curlee?

Is there anyone else? If these people are (t)here at all...

Nancy is never coming back, I've learnt to let that dream die.

Michele is an interesting choice, and she is a storyteller, but she's never really had the chance to shine at GH, with the exception of Guza's second stint where she was responsible for revisiting Laura's rape by Luke and Elizabeth's rape storyline.

I actually wouldn't mind to see what she could do if she were paired with someone who knew the ins and outs of Y&R.

Edited May 14, 200916 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

I bet if they were at Y&R, you'd rationalize everything they'd do too.

I actually wouldn't mind to see what she could do if she were paired with someone who knew the ins and outs of Y&R.

That sounds wonderful, even though I don't know much about her work.

And Lorraine Broderick?!

And Lorraine Broderick?!

He would be fabulous, too. Loved what I've seen of his work! But not much.

Hey!!! I have a perfect candidate! I just realised!!!

Frederick Johnson!!!

And Lorraine Broderick?!

Her stints at ATWT and OLTL left a lot to be desires, very hit or miss writer, if you ask me, though I do like her. But, I wouldn't want her at Y&R. Let her go back to AMC.

Anymore suggestions, Sylph?

Edited May 14, 200916 yr by Y&RWorldTurner